Artist	Song
Henry Vestine (Canned Heat)	Bullfrog Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson	Don't Start me Talkin'
Buddy Guy	The First Time I Met The Blues
Albert Collins	Frosty
Little Walter (And His Jukes)	My Babe
Barry McGuire	Eve Of Destruction
Charles Brown	Black Night
Bob Dylan	Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance
Joan Baez	There But For Fortune
Don Vliet (Captain Beefheart)	Diddy Wah Diddy
Willie Dixon	Spoonful
Guitar Slim	Guitar Slim
Muddy Waters	Mojo Working
Howlin' Wolf	Smokestack Lightnin'
Slim Harpo	Baby Scratch My Back
Johnny Guitar Watson	Three Hours Past Midnight
Clarence Gatemouth Brown	Gate's Salty Blues
Willie Mae Thornton	Hound Dog
Lightnin' Slim	Rooster Blues
Teddy Bunn	Evil Man's Blues

Comment:

OK, it's like this...I was always fascinated by that list of names in The Mothers of Invention's first album, Freak Out! You know the one, "These People Have Contributed Materially in Many Ways to Make Our Music What it is. Please Do Not Hold it Against them." And then there's a list of 180 names some you immediately know (Bob Dylan) and some nobody knows (Donna #2). So anyway, I realised a lot of the 180 were musicians and always wanted to know what they did and what they all sounded like - well here it is. Now not everyone on the list is represented on these CDs (mainly the obscure modern classicists - I just couldn't find material by them) but most are here. Tracks are listed by the name as it appears in Frank's list and, where it is not immediately obvious, the name of the band is then given afterwards. Where possible I have picked the more well known works by the artists that Zappa would have been listening too in the years leading up to the formation of The Mothers and the recording of Freak Out!However, this has not always been possible, for instance where the artist has no recorded material from that period (an example is Henry Vestine, one time member of The Mothers, who only later appeared in recorded form with Canned Heat, so I picked a song he wrote for The Heat).

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